Poles Begin To Suspect Something.

 As Polish WNP writes:

Ukraine is losing more land. At the moment, our neighbors do not have enough potential to defend themselves. They have to negotiate, but they have weak cards in their hands. President Putin holds the aces.

At the same time, the determination of Ukrainians to defend their own state has been exhausted. The mistakes made by the government are taking revenge.

Observers point out that without Donald Trump's energetic commitment, nothing will come out of the negotiations. And he is spinning scenarios that are dangerous for Ukraine, but also for Polish and Europe.  

Generally, there are no good scenarios for the combined West in general, and for Poland in particular, if it decides to go Macron's way. But looks like Poles made a right decision when told Macron to shove his laughable idea of "peacekeepers" where he, most likely, enjoys shoving. Per Trump "spinning"--he has 35 days to decide if he wants to make this 404 clusterfuck a purely Biden's thing or he will step into it and will experience his own and America's impotence in a historic defeat for his administration. 

 

Meanwhile, another clusterfuck, this time in Kerch Strait. 

This, my friends, is how maritime incompetence and greed look like when profit takes over basic safety and limitations of the old rust bucket of the River-Sea class in stormy conditions. Well, Investigative Committee is on it and owners and captain will have a lot to answer for why this bathtub was allowed into stormy Black Sea. Since then the storm only strengthened. Truism--know your limitations. Because of this clusterfuck, Kiev celebrates and is about to declare victory.

Great Conversation.

Stephen Gardner and Larry. 

 

I Couldn't Resist.

 No, I mean it)) 

МОСКВА, 15 дек — РИА Новости. Из 155-й бригады ВСУ имени Анны Киевской, часть состава которой проходила обучение во Франции, почти сразу после прибытия на позицию дезертировали порядка тысячи человек, об этом заявил главный редактор украинского издания "Цензор.нет" Юрий Бутусов в эфире своего YouTube-канала. "Огромное количество случаев самовольного оставления части (СОЧ) из числа тех, кого туда засунули, в эту бригаду", — сказал он.

Translation: MOSCOW, December 15 — RIA Novosti. About a thousand people deserted from the 155th Anna Kievskaya Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, some of whose personnel were trained in France, almost immediately after arriving at their positions, said Yuriy Butusov, editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian publication Censor.net, on his YouTube channel. "There are a huge number of cases of unauthorized abandonment of the unit (SOCH) from among those who were shoved there, into this brigade," he said.

 

But on a serious note--what did anyone expect? Those deserters are people grabbed from the streets. Many are of advanced age. Soon, 18 year olds will be grabbed and thrown into the meat grinder--Blinken and Sullivan who do not know the difference between azimuth and course parameter demand that. Most will not survive, not for a long time anyway. Meanwhile, the Russian flag over Kurakhovo's grain storage. 

 

I guess Russians will lose another 600,000 of personnel just taking Pokrovsk, if you know what I mean. Hey, why not go full Monty--Russians will lose 10 million. That's the US "intel" at work.

Libya, Eh?

My latest. 

 

What About This Famed Chobham?

Well, it doesn't work really.  

NATO armor in general is having a very bad performance on the modern battlefield. 

 

To Enjoy Life A Little Bit...

In the midst of a horror. One is a stunning beauty in everything. 

Others, my cuto-o-meter just broke by going off the scale)) 

That's what civilization does--creates a culture, which speaks to everyone.

In Related News...

 ... water is wet, fire is hot. 

Russia is outpacing the arms production of the entire EU after significantly ramping up its defense industry and despite Western sanctions, the bloc’s commissioner for defense and space, Andrius Kubilius, has said. Kubilius, a noted Russia hawk and two-time prime minister of Lithuania, was approved by the European Parliament last month as the EU’s first ever defense commissioner. In an interview on Friday with the RND media group, he called on the EU to significantly expand the production of conventional weapons such as artillery and infantry vehicles, as well as long-range and precision weapons amid what he called a Russian attack threat. “The Russians have expanded their arms industry to an unimaginable extent despite our sanctions,” Kubilius stated. Russia now produces “more weapons in three months than the entire European arms industry can produce, and in six months more weapons than the entire German army has,” he added. Kubilius also cited experts who, according to him, say that Russia now produces more tanks than it uses on the front lines in the Ukraine conflict.

I want to stress, that in the last few years, a very good man, who I will not name, because I respect him, no, he is not my acquaintance--was repeating ad nauseam that Russia "with the economy the size of Spain".  Sadly, there is no such profession as a "good man", but for most people in the US "intel" community it is worth learning that Russia's economy is the 4th economy in the world and, possibly, the third. I want to stress that GDP numbers circulating in the "intel" circles are crap invented in the combined West to hide its deindustrialization and financialization of  own economies. US industrial base was in steady decline for decades now and realistically, with the exception of automotive industry (granted with huge pure assembly from import parts sector) and aerospace with naval construction... well, that's about the most important US machine building sectors. 

Now, to Khmeimim and transport aircraft--it could be that Russians decided not to maintain the base anymore and will evacuate it. Once Assad government fell, and Syrians made a choice--what's the point, to support WHO? The main objective of defeating ISIS have been met by 2020 and if Syrians want to live in misery, Russia should not waste a single Russian live or ruble on them. Russia is not Soviet Union and doesn't do charity. Simple as that. As I stated--have patience, we will know in due time.